Anti-Gay Kentucky Governor Faces $2 Million Tab For Same-Sex Marriage Fight

GOP Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who rode the Kim Davis controversy to victory in last month’s election, has inherited a $2 million bill for his predecessor’s legal fight against same-sex marriage.

Bevin (above center), who once said same-sex marriage would lead to parents marrying their children, stood firmly behind Davis (above right) when the Rowan County clerk was jailed for refusing to issue licenses to gay couples in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell. Bevin also accused Democratic opponent Jack Conway, who declined to defend the state’s marriage ban as attorney general, of failing to protect the religious freedom of county clerks. Bevin’s predecessor, Gov. Steve Brashear, defended the marriage ban when Conway refused to do so.